- The head of the IMF sexually assaulted a Muslim woman working at his hotel. Laila Lalami speaks eloquently on the subject.
- A Saudi Arabian student in the U.S. is arrested for assaulting people at a Wal-Mart.
- An estimated 2,555 women in Yemen die annually during childbirth because they do not have access to proper health facilities or experienced medical professionals.
- I Speak for Myself gets some more awesomecoverage.
- Syria’s government is cracking down harder on female protesters.
- Two Muslim mothers in an Indian town have been arrested over allegations they killed their daughters for dishonoring the family by eloping with Hindu men. More here. May Allah give the murdered women peace and justice.
- TwoCircles.net profiles Mumbai’s first female diesel driver.
- AFP profiles a young Iranian-Canadian designer who created sports hijabs.
- Incidents of an Islamist group threatening to kill a British-Muslim woman for not wearing a veil, and launching more attacks on gay men and women, have left residents of London’s Tower Hamlets area worried and afraid.
- One Saudi woman needed to drive. So she did.
- An Iranian woman who was blinded and disfigured after an acid attack will find justice by putting acid in her attacker’s eyes.
- The Guardian profiles a young Pakistani woman working for change in her country.
- The Daily Nightly highlights a program to help raise the self-esteem of Muslim American women and girls.
- Bahraini police violently raise girls’ schools as part of governmental crackdown.
- Women living in refugee camps are embroidering clothes and accessories sold in high-end department stores, through a business started by a 27-year-old Palestinian woman.
- A beautiful story of one grandmother’s nontraditional route to her college graduation.
If we’ve missed any news about Muslim women from this week, feel free to leave links in the comments!
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Has Ni Putes Ni Soumises issued a statement about Dominique Strauss-Kahn?
Tec15–I haven’t seen one yet.